The problem with Disney casting Jack Whitehall – a straight actor – to play its first gay character
Straight actors playing gay characters is fine – but there are still plenty of reasons for the LBGT+ community to be…
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The director Daniel Kokotajlo’s greatest achievement is his sympathetic grasp of character.
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is impossible to resist
This sequel has a more reflective tone than the banger-a-minute original, but you can’t deny its charms.
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Excess, abundance and addiction: the garish, ugly world of Lauren Greenfield’s Generation Wealth
This documentary heaves with Venice Beach brats with four-figure allowances, and strippers writhing around inhundred-dollar bills.
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Path of Blood could be You’ve Been Framed if not for the brutal endgame
The documentary is based on hundreds of hours of raw video seized in raids on Al Qaeda safe-houses.
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Even more disappointing than the lack of inspiration is the film’s taint of corporate bias.
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Oliver Parker’s Swimming With Men: a chlorine-scented male spin on Calendar Girls
A throwback to those late-1990s movies about disenfranchised males regaining self-respect through unusual hobbies: The Full Monty and Brassed Off.
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